The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 8

I fastened my handkerchief to the nine sticks that stood erect, and extended it on all sides till it was as tight as the top of a drum; and I desired the Emperor to let a troop of his best horse, twenty-four in number, come and exercise upon this plain.

Who acts: I, nine sticks, handkerchief · What happens: fasten, stand, extend, be, desire, let · To what, where: handkerchief, sides, Emperor, troop

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nine sticks, handkerchief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 fastened	nsubj
2	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 handkerchief	nmod:poss
4	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fastened	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 sticks	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sticks	det
7	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sticks	nummod
8	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fastened	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sticks	acl:relcl
11	erect	erect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stood	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 extended	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 extended	cc
14	extended	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fastened	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 extended	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 sides	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 sides	det
18	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 extended	obl
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 tight	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tight	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tight	cop
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 tight	advmod
23	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 extended	advcl
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 top	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 top	det
26	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tight	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 drum	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 drum	det
29	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 top	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 desired	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 desired	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 desired	nsubj
33	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fastened	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Emperor	det
35	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 desired	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 let	mark
37	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 desired	ccomp
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 troop	det
39	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 let	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 horse	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 horse	nmod:poss
42	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	43 horse	amod
43	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 troop	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 four	punct
45	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 four	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 twenty	punct
47	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 horse	nmod
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 number	case
49	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 four	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 come	punct
51	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 let	conj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 exercise	cc
53	exercise	exercise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 come	conj
54	upon	upon	ADP	_	56 plain	case
55	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	56 plain	det
56	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 exercise	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fasten	past	I	my handkerchief		to the nine sticks	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient to stick=Co-Patient
2	stand	past	the nine sticks			erect property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	extend	past	I not said here	handkerchief	all sides		vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is	past	handkerchief			as the top of a drum; tight property	tree rules
5	desire	past	I	the Emperor			tree rules
6	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a troop of behavior's best horse twenty four in number			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troop=Theme
7	come	infinitive	I not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	exercise	infinitive	I not said here			upon this plain	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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